26th March 2017, 2:36 PM
Hildawg is a fake plastic person and I can scarcely watch her without cringing. As I watched her debate and even deliver speeches, I could digest it on two levels, one of her substance and the other of her ostensibly robotic delivery. If I were an ignorant person, I'd be more easily wooed by Trump's ability to use simplistic language, speak in a confident way, and deflect questions / distract from the important issues. That Hillary lost to someone as odious as Trump speaks volumes of her viability as a candidate. That is to say, in how likeable and trustworthy she appears. Apart from that, any reasonable person can see that she's magnitudes better than Trump from a standpoint of competence, diplomacy, organization, and policy.
Nonetheless, it's hard to imagine Bernie doing worse than her, even with all the **!!! SOCIALIST !!!** rhetoric that Republicans would have been shouting from the rooftops. Bernie at least had the ability to rouse people. Voters clearly wanted an outsider candidate. There are voters dumb enough to have voted for Trump over Hillary, but would have happily voted for Sanders over Trump. Sad, but true. I'd be very interested in seeing an alternate reality of Bernie getting the candidacy.
One flaw in this theory, of course, is that Sanders's primary fanbase are young people, those who are notorious for not voting. And it's no doubt that he lacked the minority support that Hillary had behind her. Still, once Hillary was out of the picture, it's easy to imagine Sanders snatching those up. Without all the scandals, with being a better public speaker, with inspiring voters with lofty (albiet unrealistic) goals of free health care, infrastructure spending, taking on Wall St., etc, I really do think Sanders would have beaten Trump.
Nonetheless, it's hard to imagine Bernie doing worse than her, even with all the **!!! SOCIALIST !!!** rhetoric that Republicans would have been shouting from the rooftops. Bernie at least had the ability to rouse people. Voters clearly wanted an outsider candidate. There are voters dumb enough to have voted for Trump over Hillary, but would have happily voted for Sanders over Trump. Sad, but true. I'd be very interested in seeing an alternate reality of Bernie getting the candidacy.
One flaw in this theory, of course, is that Sanders's primary fanbase are young people, those who are notorious for not voting. And it's no doubt that he lacked the minority support that Hillary had behind her. Still, once Hillary was out of the picture, it's easy to imagine Sanders snatching those up. Without all the scandals, with being a better public speaker, with inspiring voters with lofty (albiet unrealistic) goals of free health care, infrastructure spending, taking on Wall St., etc, I really do think Sanders would have beaten Trump.